The zoo says preganant mothers and baby monkeys are not feed the wine.

In Kazakhstan where overnight temperatures fall to minus 40 degrees C, zoo keepers have turned to wine to help their monkeys cope. Karaganda Zoo chief animal specialist Svetlana Pilyuk told local media it was not a matter of making the animals drunk but of "relaxing" them. The red wine is diluted with hot water and mixed with sugar and fruit.

They might not insist in Kazakhstan on wine bottles having warning labels but the zoo strictly follows medical advice anyway. Pregnant monkeys and babies are not allowed to have the drink, Ms Pilyuk told AFP news agency.

"We give the monkeys wine because in the winter it protects them from respiratory infections," she said. "After all, primates are just like people - they enjoy drinking an alcoholic drink. Some of them even abuse it, coming up to the drinking trough several times."

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